Fencepost



H. T. KLINE May 15, 1923.

FENGEPOST Filed Jan. 11 1921 H l l t lwl l b E TZ/QZZ'HeD Patented May i511, 3925,

till TBS HENRY T. KLINE, F WABSAW, INDIANA.

FENCEPOST.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY T. KLINE, citizen of the United States, residing at Warsaw, in the county of Kosciusko and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in F enccposts. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved fence post and has as one of its principal objects to provide a satisfactory and efficient post of metal,cement, lime mortar or wood.

The invention has as a further object to provide a structure wherein fence wires may be readily secured to the post and as easily detached therefrom.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide a post so constructed that the post will not be liable to work loose or pull out of the ground.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved 25 post showing fence wires in connection therewith,

Figure 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 of Figure 1, particularly showing the manner in which the fence wires are secured to the post,

Figure 3 is a transverse section on the line 33 of Figure 1, showing the spreader ring employed in the lower end portion of the post,

Figure 4 is an elevation showing a slightly modified form of post, and

Figure 5 is a transverse section on the line 5-5 of Figure 1.

In carrying the invention into effect, my improved post is formed wiph a cylindrical shell open at its ends. The shell may be constructed of suitable resilient sheet metal or other approved material and in the lower end portion of the shell are formed oppositely disposed vertical slits 11. These slits define base portions 12 at opposite sides thereof and arranged between said base portions near the lower end of the shell is a spreader ring 13 of a diameter somewhat greater than the diameter of the shell. The base portions 12 are thus held apart by said ring to occupy a downwardly divergent relation. Any approved means may be employed for securing the ring between the base portions but it has been found in practice that where ametal shell is employed said base portions will, due to the resiliency of the metal of the shell, firmly clamp the ring therebetween. As will be perceived, the base of the shell is due to the diver ence of the base portions 12, substantially bell shaped so that when the shell is sunk in the ground, as suggested in Figure 1, the base portions 12 will tend to prevent the post froinworking loose as well as also resist upward movement of the post.

Formed in the upper end portion of the shell at one side thereof is a series of vertically spaced slots 14. Any number of slots desired may be provided and, as particularly brought out in Figure 2, these slots are adapted to receive fence wires, as conventionally illustrated at 15, therein. Locking the wires in engagement with the shell is a locking rod 16 which is arranged within the shell in front of said wires. Thefence wires will thus be prevented from riding out of the slots and formed on the upper end of the rod is a hook 17 engaging over the upper end edge of the shell for sustaining the rod. As will be appreciated, this construction provides an arrangement whereby the fence wires-may be readily attached to the post and as easily disengaged therefrom.

In Figures 1- and 5 of the drawings, 1 have shown a slight modification of the invention wherein a shell 18 is employed. This shell corresponds, of course, to the shell 10 of the preferred construction and is slit at its lower end portion to provide base portions 19 held in diverging relation by a spacer ring 20. Formed in the upper end portion of the shell at one side thereof is a series of vertically spaced Z-shaped slots having oblique portions 21 at the ends of which are oppositely directed communicating vertical portions 22. The vertical portions of each of said slots lie in the same horizontal plane and, as will be observed, tie oblique portion of each of the slots 10 enters the vertical portions thereof near the opposite ends of the latter portions. Any approved number of slots may. of course, be employed and, as suggested in Figure l, said slots are adapted to receive the fence wires. 1 In practice. the wires are first passed through the oblique portions 21 of the slots and are then brought to horizontal position extending through the vertical portions 22 of the slots. Thus, the Wires may be readily attached to the post and, as will be seen, accidental disengagement of said Wires will be practically impossible.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is:

1. In a fence post, the combination of a shell having aslit in one end thereof and a rigid unitary spreader ot greater dimensions than the internal dimensions of the shell permanently wedged in the shell from said end thereof to be carried by the shell flaring the shell at its adjacent extremity and sustaining said extremity of the shell flared.

2. In a fence post, the combination of a cylindrical shell having a slit inone end thereof, and a rigid unitary ring of greater diameter than the internal diameter of the shell permanently wedged in the shell from said end thereof to be carried by the shell flaring the shell at its adjacent extremity and sustaining said extremity of the shell flared.

In testimony whereof I are my signature.

HENRY T. KLINE, 1,. s] 

